Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] footnote on Darwin

2007-07-05 Thread CeJ
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/letters/61_01_16.htm >>Darwin's work is most important and suits my purpose in that it provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle. One does, of course, have to put up with the clumsy English style of argument. Despite all s

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] footnote on Darwin

2007-07-05 Thread CeJ
JF: >>I believe that in the passage quoted from Marx's letter of Lassalle, Marx wrote "not only is he the first to strike a fatal blow to 'teleology'in natural science," NOT 'theology'. In other words Marx was noting that Darwin had shown it possible to provide causal explanations for the apparent

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] footnote on Darwin

2007-07-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I believe that in the passage quoted from Marx's letter of Lassalle, Marx wrote "not only is he the first to strike a fatal blow to 'teleology'in natural science," NOT 'theology'. In other words Marx was noting that Darwin had shown it possible to provide causal explanations for the apparently des

[Marxism-Thaxis] footnote on Darwin

2007-07-05 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ jannuzi I didn't use the main thread title on West and Marxism. -- "In a speech over Marx's grave, Engels (1883) pointed out the relations between Marx and Darwin in the following terms: 'Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nat

[Marxism-Thaxis] footnote on Darwin

2007-07-04 Thread CeJ
I didn't use the main thread title on West and Marxism. -- "In a speech over Marx's grave, Engels (1883) pointed out the relations between Marx and Darwin in the following terms: 'Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx disco